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HB1490 • 2026

requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Katy Peternel (R), Margaret Drye (R), Kristin Noble (R), Cindy Bennett (R), Michael Granger (R), James Thibault (R), Claudine Burnham (R), Erica Layon (R)
Last action
2026-03-11
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

What This Bill Does

  • requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-11 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/11/2026 HJ 7 P. 19

  2. 2026-03-04 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 03/02/2026 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 10 P. 12

  3. 2026-02-27 H

    Executive Session: 03/02/2026 09:30 am GP 232

  4. 2026-02-03 H

    Public Hearing: 02/11/2026 11:00 am GP 232

  5. 2025-12-10 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 1 P. 22

Official Summary Text

requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1490 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2385
12/07

HOUSE BILL
1490

AN ACT
requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

SPONSORS: Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Bennett, Rock. 4; Rep. Burnham, Straf. 2; Rep. Drye, Sull. 7; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Thibault, Merr. 25

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires scholarship organizations to provide a written explanation to parents of students that have been receiving a home education of the parents' requirement to provide written notice to the district superintendent or school principal upon termination of a home education program.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2385
12/07

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Education Freedom Accounts; Scholarship Organization Responsibilities; Notice Requirement Added. Amend RSA 194-F:4 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
III-a. The scholarship organization shall ensure that parents of students who had been receiving a home education pursuant to RSA 193-A receive a written explanation of their requirement to provide written notice of termination of the home education program pursuant to RSA 193-A:5, III.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.